Apologies.Escaped checks at many stages.This kind of mistake happens when there are same two letters in a component.After having taken AGENT, when we work on other components we think we have accounted for a particular letter without realising there are two of those letters in the word breakup (T in this instance).Knowing this, when I check I usually write out the components and strike out the letters. In this case I might have thought I have done it without doing it.

In this particular case I feel it hardly matters as I don't think one can solve this clue without seeing a couple of crossings in the grid. In my case I looked for the Maharashtra town after getting the answer

Precipitates movement for vagrants (12) PERIPATETICS (PRECIPITATES*) It was rather pathetic that I thought this was spelt with a H after the first T. I was disabused of my wrong notion today!How Pathetic

Nice 'claws' in CV's cartoon. Talk of small print!Mixed bag for me today- win some (happy) loose some (pathetic) Happy to have spent an interesting hour. So happy to have got all clarifications immediately on the blog. Thank you Col. & Kishore.

I am where I am !! It is CV who took the trouble of travelling to meet me !! The caption should be CV meets Raju. (mountain meets mohammed ? No, it should be the other way around !! Thanks to him . He also gave me a few tips on software for compiling, an area where my head is literally in the clouds !!